The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1887-09-17
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PAINTING FOR BLOOD.
BiIl Sye's Chiyalrous Challenge to an In
suittng Rural Editor.

been called 10 printed statement
made over your own signature some
time ago, in which you spoke in a light
and flippant manner Of my hair. The
remark was carefully worded, but cal
culated to east obloquy and'reproach
| upon me in the eyes Of the public. /
| have spoken 10 several friends in rela-
| tion 10 it and they are Of one opinion
In the matter. They unite in saying
| that the term Mexican hairless humor-
ist' demands "A challenge, 10 say moth
| ing Of the statement that ''while on
| board a train which was robbed in
Nebraska" | succeeded in ''concealing
my jewelry in my hair until the danger
| mad passed.
For this. sir, beg to state that my
address is at No. 23ll Rue de Bowery.
opposite the Place du Railway Mysterie,
and to ask that YOU will send me your
own address. | forward this by the
hands Of slow messenger boy, who
will bring me your answer as soon as
he gets thoroughly rested. / need not
add that he is my friend, and will act
as my second should YOU refuse 10
retract the statements referred TO. You
may also settle with him for this mes
| sage and your own.
/ will settle with you.
hope, sir. that you will excuse any
thing that may seem coarse or brutal
| in this challenge. for desire only to
take your life without giving you any
ofense, and | want to be polite like
| other duelists. May / ask, therefore,
that at your earliest convenience you
will name quiet place, as FREQ from
malaria as possible, where we may Kill
each other undisturbcd?
May i trouble you also, sir, 10 select
two as dangerous weapons as possible,
and also TO bring with you the surgeon
who generally sews you up at such
| times.
The DE Nyes have always been hot
| blooded race ever since they left
! France, and they can none Of them
| brook an insult or bear 10 be tramped
| on.
When | first read your singing in
suit in the paper | became delirious
with passion. and although | am not
related To the Knickerbockcrs my
breath came in short pants.
The DE Nyes are pleasant people to
meet, but the man who infuriates one
| of them is liable to meander up the
elastic, and wholly banishing upright
! pieces, but the greatest of evils escaped
and continues TO escape remedy. Near
/ ly all staymakers render the structure
! Of the corset sufficiently narrow to al
low of its being drawn at the back far
/ too tight for the health of the wearer.
/ Sensible ladies leave the permanent
lacing of the interval at the back of
! their stays untouched. That interval,
according to high authority, should
not be less than an inch in breadth, SO
"a to leave the spinal column uncov-
cred by the corset Ladies, however,
who lack common sense, strain.
tug, pull and haul at the
lacing at the back of their
stays, or they hold on to horizontal
bar put up in their dressing-room while
their maids tug. pull and haul at the
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/ glass" or wasp" effect is produced.
/ Are there any other results, it may be
asked, from this elegant process of gar
roting the female form? There are n
/ good many, and we will venture to emu
merate few. On the authority of the
most eminent physicians and surgeons
/ of the last two generations it may be
/ stated that in the head tight lacing
! produces giddiness. headache, pain in
! the eyes, ringing i'm the ears and bleed
/ ing ut the nose. uabitual tight lacing
will provoke that most undesirable adj
dition TO the female complexion, n red
nose. Tight lacing is quite as mis-
| chievous i'm the region Of the thorax,
! to which il gives false support. inn
peding the development of the natu-
raj support. 1t displaces the bones,
! dcranges the circulation, induces scir-
rhus in the mammary glands, and ul-
/ timatcly cancer; and it is a tolerably
sure provocative of lung disease, pal
/ pitation of the heart and water in the
/ chest. In the abdominal region tight
lacing may be reckoned upon with toll
erable confidence to bring about loss
of appetite. squeamishness, indiges-
tion. induration of the liver, melan-
cholia, dropSy and rupture. Campin
closely associated tight-lacing with
squirting; Boaud said that it led to
polypus; Planter maintained that to
tight lacing mothers unhealthy chit
drcn were born; Joseph warned the
lovers of stiff corsets that their chill
drcn would be ugly; Wormes remarked
that one of the trifling Inconvenience
of tight lacing was swollen feet; and
Winslow showed that there was an in
innate connection between tight lac
ing. curvature Of the spine and hunch-
s1afk.
Every scholar is aware that stays are
articles of attire of the very highest an
tiquity. and that the cestus Of Agle
was practically n corset. Some anti
quarians have even contended that the
girdle which Juno wore when she
wished 10 appear at her loveliest in the
eyes of Jupiter was pair of stays. the
adornments described by the ancient
Greek and Latin poets being in all
probability the "mamillares' made of
many folds Of the finest cambria tightly
wound round and round the female
f form after tho manner of the turbau of